Sect Kills 15 In Fresh Borno Village Attack

No fewer than 15 people have been reported killed when Boko Haram attacked a remote Huyum village in Askira-Uba district of Borno State. Residents of the attacked village told AFP that the sect stormed the village at midnight opening fire and burning homes to the ground.
“The whole village was burnt by Boko Haram gunmen. We lost around 500 homes,” said Bukar Zira, who fled to Mubi in neighbouring Adamawa State as the rebels moved in. Zira said the insurgents surrounded the village and opened fire before moving in, sprinkling petrol on homes, many of which are mud-brick with straw roofs, then setting them alight. “We have so far lost 15 people and one was injured. People in the whole village moved out to different parts of Borno and Adamawa,” he added. The attack is the 12th since Muhammadu Buhari became President, a total of 109 people have been killed, according to AFP reporting. Military Brass Meets Over insurgency Chiefs of defence staff from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon and a high-level military official from Benin held talks to determine strategies for a new African Union-backed regional force against the Boko Haram. The meeting, according to Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, Alex Badeh said they resolve to work together to put an end to a menace that has become a regional and indeed a global problem.” “If there is any time for us to rise in one voice irrespective of our differences, it is now,” he added. The long-awaited Multi-National Joint Task Force, which was due to be operational in November, has its headquarters in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital, under a senior Nigerian officer.